Data-Entry Worker
Answering-Service Employee
When you call your doctor’s office at 3 a.m., the person who answers might be someone just like you, at home in her pajamas.
What you bring to the table: After-hours availability, a cheerful and calm demeanor, a phone and a computer.
Expect to earn: $8 to $14 per hour.
How to get started: Look for listings on these job boards: indeed.com, simplyhired.com and careerbuilder.com.
What you bring to the table: After-hours availability, a cheerful and calm demeanor, a phone and a computer.
Expect to earn: $8 to $14 per hour.
How to get started: Look for listings on these job boards: indeed.com, simplyhired.com and careerbuilder.com.
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Content Writer
Companies often don’t have the staff to create content for
their websites, so they outsource the job to freelancers. With new sites
springing up every day, writers are in huge demand.
What you bring to the table: A talent for expressing yourself concisely, putting an idea into words and meeting deadlines reliably. Companies often want content pertaining to a specific field of expertise, so it helps to sell yourself in your areas of strength.
Expect to earn: There is a vast range of pay for writing Web content, from nothing up to hundreds of dollars per assignment. The median pay for a full-time content writer is $35,200. You can earn as much as $66,000.
How to get started: Check listings at indeed.com. If you think you're a fit for a specific company, e-mail a sample post and offer your services.
What you bring to the table: A talent for expressing yourself concisely, putting an idea into words and meeting deadlines reliably. Companies often want content pertaining to a specific field of expertise, so it helps to sell yourself in your areas of strength.
Expect to earn: There is a vast range of pay for writing Web content, from nothing up to hundreds of dollars per assignment. The median pay for a full-time content writer is $35,200. You can earn as much as $66,000.
How to get started: Check listings at indeed.com. If you think you're a fit for a specific company, e-mail a sample post and offer your services.
Affliliate Blogger
Social Media Market Consultant
Not only has social media changed how friends engage, it also
has transformed the way businesses reach customers and build brand
loyalty. Companies need people for whom Facebook, Google Plus, Instagram
and Twitter are second nature. Sound like you?
What you’ll need: Experience in communications, journalism, public relations or marketing gives you a leg up. What’s most important is a facility with social media so that you can communicate with consumers to build brand awareness and drive traffic to a company’s website, tweet about special deals and keep a company’s Facebook page current. For $25 per month, you can access courses in social media marketing at lynda.com.
How to get started: Show potential bosses your Web skills by including links to your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts on your resumé. Maintain active, creative social accounts. If there is a cause you support, highlight it on your Facebook page and Twitter feed. Show how you created links to relevant stories and gained followers. Submit your resumé to sites such as jobsinsocialmedia.com and elance.com.
Expect to earn: $10 to $25 per hour. But some pros get as much as $75.
What you’ll need: Experience in communications, journalism, public relations or marketing gives you a leg up. What’s most important is a facility with social media so that you can communicate with consumers to build brand awareness and drive traffic to a company’s website, tweet about special deals and keep a company’s Facebook page current. For $25 per month, you can access courses in social media marketing at lynda.com.
How to get started: Show potential bosses your Web skills by including links to your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts on your resumé. Maintain active, creative social accounts. If there is a cause you support, highlight it on your Facebook page and Twitter feed. Show how you created links to relevant stories and gained followers. Submit your resumé to sites such as jobsinsocialmedia.com and elance.com.
Expect to earn: $10 to $25 per hour. But some pros get as much as $75.
Online Tutor or Teacher
Tutoring centers have been around for years, but many busy
families prefer the convenience of online coaching. That makes this
field a great work-from-home option, especially if you love a particular
subject—math, say, or reading—and have a gift for imparting that
knowledge.
What You’ll need: Most tutoring firms want you to have a college degree or at least two years of completed study in the subject you wish to teach. But you typically don’t need to have experience as an instructor.
How to get started: Create an ad or flier with your credentials and contact information and put it up in libraries and grocery stores and on community bulletin boards. Ask the administrative assistants at schools in your area if they will place your flier in teachers’ mailboxes. You also can register with a company such as Tutor.com, which assigns students to you based on your schedule. Keep in mind that most of the work will occur in the afternoon or evening, when pupils are out of school.
Expect to earn: $9 to $40 per hour. Certified teachers and those with expertise in advanced math or science might command more.
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What You’ll need: Most tutoring firms want you to have a college degree or at least two years of completed study in the subject you wish to teach. But you typically don’t need to have experience as an instructor.
How to get started: Create an ad or flier with your credentials and contact information and put it up in libraries and grocery stores and on community bulletin boards. Ask the administrative assistants at schools in your area if they will place your flier in teachers’ mailboxes. You also can register with a company such as Tutor.com, which assigns students to you based on your schedule. Keep in mind that most of the work will occur in the afternoon or evening, when pupils are out of school.
Expect to earn: $9 to $40 per hour. Certified teachers and those with expertise in advanced math or science might command more.
Tech Support Representative
Do your friends often turn to you for assistance with their
cell phones, computers and video game systems? Then you are clearly a
whiz at navigating—and explaining—technology. Tech support reps help
customers find and use the right product for their needs (laptop or
desktop?) via phone, e-mail and online chats. Most support pros log 20
hours or more each week, much of the time on weekends.
What you’ll need: Patience to deal with frustrated consumers who want to toss their new devices out the window is important, as is the ability to explain solutions to customers’ problems. Hiring firms often provide training. Apple’s at-home advisers, for instance, take a four- to six-week online class.
Find work: Scan the websites of computer manufacturers such as Apple and Dell. Consider signing on with a customer management company, like Cloud 10 or Convergys. Such companies help businesses handle their customer-support issues.
Expect to earn: $11 to $21 per hour
What you’ll need: Patience to deal with frustrated consumers who want to toss their new devices out the window is important, as is the ability to explain solutions to customers’ problems. Hiring firms often provide training. Apple’s at-home advisers, for instance, take a four- to six-week online class.
Find work: Scan the websites of computer manufacturers such as Apple and Dell. Consider signing on with a customer management company, like Cloud 10 or Convergys. Such companies help businesses handle their customer-support issues.
Expect to earn: $11 to $21 per hour
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